Conservatives have long claimed that Big Tech has a political bias — and now they believe the bots are against them
at Carnegie Mellon University and head of technical AI engagement at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI, points out that you don’t want bots to mimic just any of the material they’ve absorbed. “Much of it is uninformative, unhelpful, rambling, outright lies, hate speech, foul language, instructions that are actually dangerous, etc.,” he says. “If you just let your system produce all that kind of text, I think that’s a system that neither Democrats nor Republicans would like.
Therefore, Conitzer explains, humans have to “indicate what kind of text is desired,” and do so with input that may include “high-level principles” about avoiding harmful responses. But humans can also instill the bots with a political sensibility, he says, as whendirected an AI to generate responses “most similar to what a peaceful, ethical, and wise person like Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi might say.
As the story made the rounds, however, more sensationalist headlines made it sound as if Eliza was to blame for the man’s climate despair, when this troubled mindset was actually what drove him to correspond with the bot in the first place, according tointerview with his widow. Eventually, culture warriors were able to twist the narrative to declare that the AI’s “woke” position on climate change directly caused someone’s death.
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